If you are a user of LTO tape technology then you know that it has outstanding reliability. How much LTO tape is being used? Well, let’s put it this way, in the last two years over 250 exabytes of total LTO tape capacity (compressed) was shipped to...

“LTO-9 tape, how do I love thee, let me count the ways” is a slight variation of the line from the famous Elizabeth Barrett Browning love sonnet. In today’s world of data protection strategies storage managers can find lots to love about LTO-9 tape...

Cloud service providers (CSPs) can offer a variety of potential benefits to users including ease of scalability and the ability to access data from remote working environments. This means CSPs are storing more and more of customer’s sensitive...

What is 17 miles in circumference and pushes protons or ions near to the speed of light? While that may sound like technology that is out of this world, it’s actually something a lot closer to home: the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva,...

In today’s IT climate there is strong pressure to do more with less as storage managers look for ways to secure data economically. When it comes to tape stored data, does it make sense to cut corners with used media? Does selling used and unwanted...

Object based storage is an architecture that is designed to manage huge amounts of data, in particular, unstructured data like emails, photos, videos, web info, sensor transmitted data and so much more. By 2025, IDC predicts the Storage Sphere will...

Most of the data we create is rarely accessed but much of it must be stored for analytical purposes to stay competitive in the global commerce. How do we deal with petabytes or even exabytes of data economically, securely and accessibly? The answer...